JimF wrote:Yes, the uninstallers only get rid of your current driver. It is almost enough to make me want to try Linux. At least I think they don't try to over-engineer everything for you, but I could be wrong as they try to be more like Windows.

While I've heard about Nvidia-users using Wine to crunch FAH under Linux, I've never heard about anyone successfully using their Ati/Amd to crunch FAH under linux...

OK, you've sold me on Linux for an upcoming Haswell build (not my main PC though, where I still need Win7). But someone needs to get Folding to come out with a GPU version, which apparently does not exist at the moment.

PS - I think Gromacs 4.6 comes in a Linux version, though whether Folding will offer that is not clear. But maybe that is what they are holding out for?(I suppose it is out of place in a discussion of AMD drivers, since Gromacs-GPU appears to be CUDA only, so I will leave it at that.)

JimF wrote:OK, you've sold me on Linux for an upcoming Haswell build (not my main PC though, where I still need Win7). But someone needs to get Folding to come out with a GPU version, which apparently does not exist at the moment.

PS - I think Gromacs 4.6 comes in a Linux version, though whether Folding will offer that is not clear. But maybe that is what they are holding out for?(I suppose it is out of place in a discussion of AMD drivers, since Gromacs-GPU appears to be CUDA only, so I will leave it at that.)

Please have a look here, I am GPU folding on all of my Linux systems, using Wine and the GPU3 v6.41 console client:

art_l_j_PlanetAMD64 wrote:OK, how about this for being different - eight (8) Linux/Wine/GPU3 folding systems? I had all these "obsolete" computers and GPUs lying around here, and I thought - "How About Linux"? At first, they were smp:2 folding only, but after I found out how really easy it is to do GPU folding (thanks, Hyperlife!) with Linux/Wine/GPU3 and the re-released v6.41 console client (thanks, PG/Stanford!), well, as they say, the little snowball started rolling down the steep, snow-covered mountain ...

GPU folding is very easy to set up on Linux with Wine, I am going to start a topic with the 'tips and tricks' I have learned on 9 Linux/Wine/GPU3 installations, to make it go easily and quickly. I started with Hyperlife's Headless Linux Guide, and I've automated a lot of it with scripts so that very little typing has to be done. It has become (for me) just as easy to get GPUs folding under Linux , as it is under Windows.